Lock Down Daughter Wants To Weld

[gaz1]

nice welds there

at least she can mix crafts up now to improve more

plasma designing her own stuff
arc welding it

and the flowers to go into them

 

[Feet 'n Inches]

Those are good welds for her first attempt.

Better than my first few attempts when I was learning.

Well done!

 

[Divingdad]

Bit of an update on our daughter and her stick welding. Fair play she got stuck in to the boring repetitive beads of various rod sizes and amps. So she prepared some scrap and today put this little Saffy together.

 

[arther dailey]

Obviously enjoying working with her dad , its a win win eh

 

[tom2207]

great stuff , weldings great as the results are instant , you dont need to wait for it to dry , or set ,, or the likes ,, its just done ,,, better than super glue .
Great results too.

 

[Mark 2]

great stuff , weldings great as the results are instant , you dont need to wait for it to dry , or set ,, or the likes ,, its just done ,,, better than super glue .
Great results too.

World shortage of commas and here you are throwing them around willy nilly. Not a thought for the punctuation forest.

 

[tom2207]

World shortage of commas and here you are throwing them around willy nilly. Not a thought for the punctuation forest.

I use commas ,,,,,,, in an artistic way ..

its either tttttthat or i tttttype with a sssssssssstutter.

 

[Tangledfeet]

Easy guys! With all this loose punctuation flying around someone is bound to trip, come to a full stop, bang their head and fall into a.... coma!

 

[tom2207]

I had a friend who tripped ,,
he fell into a bowl of Muesli and nearly drowned ,


A strong Currant pulled him under ..

 

[Divingdad]

Of course I’m around. HS demands it never mind parental responsibility. Beginners need support to progress.

 

[Carl Wilson]

That's brilliant. You have inspired me to teach my 14 year old daughter about engineering and machining.

She doesn't live with me permanently and is too far away to see regularly. It's hard to have any sort of a nurturing influence on her, as her father, from a distance. Covid permitting, she'll be staying with me over summer.

So, I've been thinking up a simple turning project she could do with me helping. It would be something appealing to her and wouldn't require concentricity or huge attention to dimensions. I have a few ideas.

When she was little she loved playing around with motors, wires and batteries and taking things apart. She's become more arty now but I think that engineering can teach art a thing or two, and vice versa.

 

[graffian]

Have you seen Usher Engineering? That guys daughter, Beth, is phenomenal. Fantastic tig welder. Great machinist. I really envy people who are so young with so much talent!

There's Amy Decastro who is a welder at Moots. I gather she worked in their office and liked the look of welding and as she like decorating cakes!!

 

[colnerov]

I read somewhere that the fairer sex are good at positional welding using a mirror which comes from their ability with applying make up.

Colin

 

[Cobbler]

I read somewhere that the fairer sex are good at positional welding using a mirror which comes from their ability with applying make up.

Colin

It’s been said that during the war, if difficult welding working by mirror had to be done, they used to get the women to do it for that reason.

 

[Divingdad]

I’m not getting too excited, she is doing well but, ....now I have to insist on the essential discipline of the workshop. I am a hobbiest but the standards remain. She has yet to learn the art/feel of joining surfaces within tolerance.

And of course....sweeping up and cleaning down

 

[BarrieJ]

No shortage of female crane drivers in China, it's believed they have a more sensitive touch than men.

 

[Carl Wilson]

I am sure that she will learn the requirements for good work. I expect when she was a florist she was used to having an eye for the precise and strove for perfection. There is a long tradition in Eastern Philosophy of using flower arrangement as a mind training exercise, for just such attributes.